/ˈmʌn.i/, [ˈmɐn.ɪ(i)], /ˈmʌn.i/
OriginFrom Middle English moneye, moneie, money, borrowed from Anglo-Norman muneie (“money”), from Latin monēta (“money, a place for coining money, coin, mint”), from the name of the temple of Juno Moneta in Rome, where a mint was.
In this sense, displaced native Old English feoh, whence English fee. Doublet of mint, ultimately from the same Latin word but through Germanic and Old English, and of manat, through Russian and Azeri or Turkmen.
- plural, uncountable, usuallyA generally accepted means of exchange.
“I cannot take money that I did not work for.”
“Before colonial times cowry shells imported from Mauritius were used as money in Western Africa.”
“She used to spend money every day on makeup.”
- plural, uncountable, usuallyA currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union).
“money supply; money market”
- plural, uncountable, usuallyHard cash in the form of banknotes and coins, as opposed to checks, credit cards, or credit more generally.
- plural, uncountable, usuallyThe total value of liquid assets available for an individual or other economic unit, such as cash and bank deposits.
- plural, uncountable, usuallyWealth.
“He was born with money.”
- plural, uncountable, usuallyA person, family or class that possesses wealth.
“He was born into money.”
“He married money.”
“I grew up in Ballybeg, neither of my working-class parents came from money or went to university, so I was part of a working-class family, I assumed.”
- plural, uncountable, usuallyAn item of value between two or more parties used for the exchange of goods or services.
- plural, uncountable, usuallyA person who funds an operation.
- US, plural, slangCool; excellent.
“But Schilling was great again today. As my younger son would no doubt say, he's so money he doesn't know he's money. Two more like him and never mind the World Series; the Red Sox would be ready for t”
- countable, uncountableA surname.
“This point highlights several of John Money's contributions to the field of behavioral science.”
- countable, uncountableAn unincorporated community in Leflore County, Mississippi, United States.
“Money, Mississippi, looks exactly like it sounds. Named in that persistent Southern tradition of irony and with the attendant tradition of nescience, the name becomes slightly sad, a marker of self-co”
- countable, uncountableAn unincorporated community in Gloucester County, Virginia, United States.
Formsmonies(plural) · moneys(plural) · monie(alternative, archaic) · mony(alternative, obsolete) · more money(comparative) · most money(superlative) · Moneys(plural)